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Magnolia conspicua Salisbury, Parad. Lond. I. t. 3S (1806). — Alton, Hort. 



Kew. ed. 2. III. 330 (1811). — Sims in Bot. Mag. XXXIX. t. 1621 (1814).— 



Maximowicz in Bidl. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XVII. 419 (1872); in Mel. 



Biol. VIII. 508 (1872). — Keisuke Ito, Fig. Descr. PI. Koishikawa Bot. 



Gard. I. t. 9 (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 23 (1886). — 



Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 321 (1900). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. 



Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 38 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 38 (1907). 

 Magnolia Yulan Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. II. 6 (1809). — Bonpland, Descr. 



PI. Malm. 53, t. 20 (1813). — De CandoUe, Sijst. I. 455 (1818); Prodr. I. 



81 (1824). — Loddiges, Bot. Cab. XII. t. 1187 (1826). — Bunge in Mem. 



Acad. Sci. Sav. Etr. St. Petersbourg, II. 77 {Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 3) 



(1833). — Dcbeaux, Fl. Shangh. 14 (1875). 

 Magnolia obovaia, a. denudata De Candolle, Syst. I. 457 (1818), excludendis 



synonymis Kaempferi et Thunbergii; Prodr. I. 81 (1824). 

 Magnolia hirsuta Thunberg, PI. Jap. Nov. Sp. 8 (nomen nudum) (1824), 



secimdum specimen originale.i 

 Yulania conspicua Spach, Hist. Veget. VII. 464 (1839). 

 Magnolia Kobv^ Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. 2, 187 



{Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. I. 79) (non De Candolle) (1843), quoad descriptionem. 



Kiangsi : Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 28, 1907 (No. 1654%- 

 bush 2-4 m. tall, springing from stump of a felled tree); same locality, 

 July 31, 1907 (No. 1654; bush 2-4 m. tall). 



This Magnolia is exceedingly common around Kuling but only in the form of 

 a bush, all the trees having been cut down. Our material consists of leafy shoots 

 only and we have no knowledge of the color of the flowers. The leaves and shoots 

 agree exactly with the typical Yulan and we are disposed to regard this locality 

 as the original home of this familiar plant so widely cultivated in China since the 

 Tang dynasty (a.d. 618-907). 



As the nomenclature of this species has been much involved with that of Mag- 

 nolia lilifiora Desrousseaux {M. obovata Thunberg pr. p., M. purpurea Curtis) a 



1 Through the kindness of Professor O. Juel we have received photographs of 

 the Magnolias of Thunberg's herbarium preserved at Upsala; thej' prove that the 

 conclusions we had arrived at from Thunberg's descriptions and quotations were 

 correct. There are four named specimens of Magnolia in Thunberg's herbarium 

 which are referable to tliree species of Magnolia and to a Edgeworthia: 



Magnolia obovaia (consisting of a branch with leaves) = M. obovata Thunberg 

 (M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini). 



Magnolia tomentosa (two branchlets, each with a flower) = M. kobus De Can- 

 dolle. 



Magnolia hirsuta (two branchlets, each with a flower) = M. denudata Desrous- 

 seaux. 



Magnolia sericea (a leafy branch with a few peduncles from which the flowers 

 have fallen) = Edgeworthia papyrifera Siebold & Zuccarini. 



The specimen named in 1824 M. sericea by Thunberg had served him in 1794 for 

 the description of his M. tomentosa, as a comparison of the specimens with the de- 

 scription clearly shows; moreover, the quotation of the Japanese name " Mitsmata" 

 (for Mitsumata = Edgeworthia papyrifera) leaves httle doubt that this identification 

 ia correct. 



